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1:'.BULHVOL. XXXVI-NO. 36.BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901.SUBSCRIPTION: 81.00 Per YearBOLIVART HT"TTN1 TENNESSEEFOKTV-MNTH VAY.The bill to reorganize the State hosii ot agriculture, which passed the senate, and whichwas understood to have the support of the present agricultural department otllcerf. Is meetingwith some oppo;itiou from that direction on thegrouud thai it cuts the salaries of certain officers. Bills on third reading were acted upon asfollows: To require the supreme court to hearcases appealed oa writs of error, passed ; to repeal the charter of Gadsden, passed; to providefor the assessment of damage against concernsoperating plants held to be public nuisances,passed.Senate bills on third reading went off as follows: To abolish the charter of Monterey,parsed; to authorize Gallatin to Issue electricliflit bonds, passed; to validate charters acknowledged before noiaries public or commissioners of Tennessee, and contracts of suchcorporations, passed; to incorporate LaOrange,liluff Clt7 and Sweetwater, passed.In the senate the bill to modify the presentlaw of libel was called up out of the regularordL-r on third reading. The Judiciary committee recommended the bill for rejection. Uponmotion of Mr. Klridge the bill was rereferred tothe judiciary committee in order that the newspaper men of the State might be heard on theproposed measure.The report of the joint legislative committeeon need3 cf the Slate library was submitted tothe senate. The report declares that most ofthe shelving, furniture, etc., is in an "unsatisfactory condition and not in harmony with thedignity and standing of the great State of Tennessee among the sisterhood ;" that $1,500 be appropriated for expenses for the next two years;that the Cord system of cataloguing be adopted,and that permissitwrbe given the librarian, Inconjunction with oilier State officers, to removeeach duplicate and other unnecessary rubbishas now cumbers the library.-FIFTIETH DAY.The general assembly started on the last threevecks of the session today with barely a quorumin the house and much legislation of importanceawaiting action. The meeting of the quarterlycounty courts throughout the State kept someof the mrmbers at home.There was a long discussion In the senate overthe house bill preventing the Insurance of children under U years of age, and although itpassed the house almost unanimously, the senaterejected it by an overwhelming vote.Hills on third reading in the senate were disposed of as follows: To increase tho pensionrate for total disability from $15 to passed;to require railroads to keep up crossing signs,tabled; to prevent the substitution of othermedicines in physicians' prescriptions, passed;to allow county courts to establish free ferries,passed; to rcquird incorporated companies touse the word "incorporated" oa their signs,tabled; to protect wild turkeys in Weakley,Montgomery and liobertson counties, passed.Third reading bills in the house went off -asfollows: To declare a lieu in favor of partiescutting or threshing wheat, rye, oats, etc.,failed; to authorize Warreu county to buildturnpikes, passod.Bills passed the house authorizing Ripley tolsue bonds, authorizing Shelby county to . barrow $60,000 from llolton College, placing Hardeman county in tlio Eighth chancery division,authorizing Union City to borrow money to repair schools and preventing hogs running atlarge in Hardeman county.F1FTY-FIKST DAY.The house settled the fate of the constitutional convention bills, the dog law and theEstes fee bills when it killed each of them inturn without much discusslou. After a livelyfight. It passed the legislative and congressionalredisricting bill as it came from the senate.The constitutional convention bill went downto defeat by a vote of 47 to 44. The vote on theFstcs fee bills, which sought to put the clerksin the four large couniies o:i salary, was 36 forto 4t against. The redistrictiug bill had a largemajority.The house passed the senate bills providingfor jury commissions in Shelby aud Davidsoncounties.The senate passed the bill creating the officeof State live stock inspector, to be appointed bythe commissioner of agriculture, at a salary of$1,500 per annum, ami again refused to pass thebill giving the State board of health power tocontrol the matter of quarantines la the counties. A bill was introduced in the house requiringthe regulation of telephone rates by tha railroad commission.House bills ou third reading were acted uponas follows: To repeal the charter of Huntingdon, passed; to make three wires a lawful fence,rejected; to prevent the shipping of quail, deador alive, in the State, passed; to authorize theMemphis board of education to issua bonds forschool purposes, passod; to authorize Gallatinto issue waterworks bonds, passed; to requiretamping oa life policies of facts as to conditions and to prevent misrepresentations, passed.Senate bills on third reading were thus disposed of: To prevent chancellors from borrowing money from oflice of clerk and master, rejected; to iucorporate Dyer, passed; to Incorporaie Petersburg, passeJ ; to incorporate Halls,passed; to fix the reward for taking up floatinglumber and limber, passed.FIFTY-SECOND DAY.The only feature of Importance in today's sesfcion of the legislature was the overwhelmingJ-feat of a bill in the senate to make the Jarvislaw inoperative in coun:ie of 30,003 and less.Uotii houses agreed to the conference reportn the appropriation bill, and tho act now goesto the governor for his signature.The Tillman bill, applying the election lawsto all primary elections and prohibiting bettingon primary elections, was rereferred, considerable opposition developing.The bill creating the oftlee of State entomologist gave way to the house bill on the same subject, after being amended so as to take the control of the entomologist from the University ofTennessee and placing him under the bureau ofagriculture.FIFTY-THIKD DAY.The Warfield road law passed the senate by avote ot -7 to 3, but as the house has passed adifferent bill, road legislatiun is In a complicated condition, and there is more than an evenchance that neither of the bills will get to thegovernor because of the close proximity of theend of the session.The bouse devoted the greater part of its twosessions to the revenue bill, many amendmentsbeing offered to the bill as it came from thesenate. Quite a number of changes were made,and it is certain the bill will have to go to conference committees jo the end.The senate rejected the bill to repeal thecharter of Bellbuckle, although the people votedniariy two to one for such repeal.The governor sent in a message vetoing thebill providing for the continuance or the SecondCircuit Court of Davidson couuty.V'Illegal Use of Mails.D. C Snoddy was arrested at McTCentie a few days-agoharged with usingthe mails for illegal purposes. Saoidy,Jt is charged, had been sending out circulars proposing- to sell counterfeit Confederate money, claiming that it couldnot be detected from the genuine. Thesecret manner in which this attempt tolloat the Confederate currency wasmade caused the officials to take action.A decoy letter was sent to the addressgiven in his circulars, the inspectorsfollowing it up and making the arrestvpou its delivery,STATE NEWS.Governor Opposes the BtlLHon. It. W. Austin, United Statesmarshal, who has been in Nashvilleworking for the passage of the bill tocede mountain lands of East Tennesseefor the purpose of the National Appalachian Park, states that Gov. McMillinis opposing the bill and will veto it if itpasses. The bill has passed the lowerhouse and Mr. Austin believes it willpass the upper house, but with the governor's influence against it he fears themeasure will be defeated. The billproposes ceding many thousand acresof mountain lands of East Tennesseecounties for a national park. Thegreater part of the proposed nationalpark, which will contain about 2,000,-000 acres, lies in North Carolina.A Woman Contractor.The new railroad now in process ofconstruction from Monterey to theLaurel coal mines in the southeasternpart of Overton county, enjoys theunique distinction of having among itsemployes what probably no other railroad in the United States can boast ofa woman contractor. She has justbeen employed to build one mile ofgrade, two and one-half miles from themines, and personally oversees the menat work herself, both on the fills and inthe cuts.Big Timber Land Deal.Capitalists of Philadelphia, Clearfieldand Williamsport, Pa., have closeddeals for 50,000 acres of mountain timber lands situated in Blount county,along the headwaters of Little river.The purpose is to begin the development of this property by the construction of a branch railroad thirteen milesin length, and when this, is completedto erect sawmills and woodworkingplants in Miller's and Tuckaleechocoves.Remains of Gen. Stralil.The gallant Confederate general,Otho F. Strahl of Dyersburg, was killedat the desperate battle of Franklinthirtj'-seven years ago, and his remainswere interred at Columbia. DawsonBivouac of Dyersburg ordered that hisremains be brought to Dyersburg forreinterment, and this was done lastweek, Comrades John McGinnis andDave Shaw being sent to escort the remains home.Fine Berries and Vegetables.Reports from the berry and fruit sections of Weakley county say that indications are good for an unusually largecrop. Growers in the southern part ofthe county are putting in a large acreage of tomatoes this year, and the boxfactory at Greenfield is running dayand night, preparing for the shippingseasons.Aid for Old Confederates.No old Confederate in Obion countyneed miss the reunion in Memphis inMay on account of financial inability toattend, as the Daughters of the Confederacy, which has a membership ofsixty-eight, will see that they are provided with transportation and whateverelse is needed.Bobbing- School Houses.What is evidently an organizod bandof thieves made a raid on a number ofschool houses in Memphis a few nightsago and stole a lot of bells, books,clocks and various articles of furniture.Tulp Plant Started.The pulp plant of the Columbian Paper Company, at Bristol, erected at acost of f 00,000, began operati&ns lastweek and produced its first pulp.Mandamus for Ilia Money.Winston G. Evans of Bedford countyhas petitioned for a writ of mandamusto compel the State funding board toissue him certificates of redemption oftwo notes issued by the Bank of Tennessee for S500 each. He alleges theState is refusing to pay these notes,which have been declared genuine bythe State's expert.Conference Called Off.The convention which was called toconvene at Springfield on May 29 and30, for the purpose of a conference ofthe representative citizens of the Statein regard to "good roads and highgrade schools in rural districts," willnot be held on those days on account ofthe Confederate reunion which will beheld in Memphis on those dates.East Tennessee Patriots.The report of army recruits securedduring February shows that East Tennessee furnished more recruits thanany other section except New Yorkcity. The Knoxville oflice, with substations, enlisted 112, New York 143and Cincinnati 75. All other stationswere less than 75.Reward for Mob Members.Gov. McMillin has offered a rewardof $500 for the arrest and conviction ofthe murderers of Sallie CrutchfielJ,colored, the Smith county woman whowas murdered by a mob on March 15th.The reward is f 500 for all the guiltyparties or $150 for each one arrestedand convicted.Forrest Monument.N. B. Forrest Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Chattanooga, has appropriated$ 100 to the bronze statue of Gen. Forrest to be erected at Memphis.Killed a Catamount.Another catamount was killed a fewdays ago near Clayton, in the westernpart of Obion county, which makesthree animals of this species that havebeen killed there lately. Prof. JohnBond who was on his way to his school,saw the animal, which some dogs wereafter, and, returning home, secured hitgun and UiUo4 it.OTHERWISE UNNOTICED. IThere is a supposed case of bubonic plague at the Michigan universityat Ann Arbor.The new York police say that AdamWorth stole the Gainsborough picture, but that it couldn't be provedon him.The new Masonic temple in Lincoln,111., was dedicated Sunday afternoonwith special Easter services.Rev. R. B. Foster, ne of the leading Congregational ministers of Oklahoma territory, died at Okarche,aged 70.After a trial lasting a week. BentGore, charged with the murder ofJohn Scarlett, in September, 1890, wasacquitted at Vienna, 111.Maj. W. S. Frierson, CO years old.a staff officer of Gen. Forrest in theconfederate army, died at Knoxville,Tenn.James G. Greer, for more than forty vears a resident and business manof St. Louis, died early Sunday morning at his home.The duke of Westminster is goingto retire from the army. He has hadenough of military life.Augustus Bryan, one of the pioneermining operators of the far west, isdead at his home in Chicago. He was78 years old.Dr. Sylvanus C. Griswold, one of thepioneers" of Franklin county, Mo.,and a prominent physician of NewHaven, died Sunday.If the postmaster general approvesthe idea, St. Louis letters carrierswill wear shirt waists through thehot months this summer."It is definitely ascertained," saysa dispatch to the London Times fromKroonstadt, dated Saturday, "thatGen. De Wet and Gen. Botha met atVreda."The bay colt, full brother to Lieut.Gibson, the foaling of which, lastweek, killed the famous dam SophyHardee, died of lockjaw.The Old People's home of the Christian church, recently removed fromSt. Louis to Jacksonville, 111., was dedicated Sunday afternoon.Few of the general officers of theUnited States army are West Fointgraduates. This is taken as proof thatthe volunteer officer is the equal ofthe regular.Rev. Stephen S. Myrick, of Richmond, Ind., has been elected to thechair of mathematics in the AngloChinese school at Singapore, and willsail on April 17.The German kaiser has made another remarkable address, declaringthat "times are coming which will tryour metal," and appealing to the armyto remain loyal.A gambling trust as fashionabe Saratoga is said to be the object aimedat in a bill which is being rushedthrough the New York legislature.A company is being formed nearCorsicana, Tex., to manufacture acheap, patented compressed fuel that,it is estimated, will cost not morethan $1.50 a ton.Workmen making an excavation inNew York came across what is believed to be the remains of the oldwall of Fort Amsterdam, built in theseventeenth century.George Smith, organizer and publisher of the Dictionary of NationalBiography, and head of the firm ofSmith fc Elder, is dead in London.The United States armored cruiserNew York, flagship of Rear-AdmiralRodgers, senior squadron commanderof the Asiatic station, sailed from Algiers. Sunday evening, on her way toManila.BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT.Former Soldiers and Sailors to" Participate in the Logan Monument Unveiling' Exercises.Washington, April 8. The presidentlias issued the following executive order:"Jt is hereby ordered that uponT.tesday, the Oih inst.. such cnployes-f the executive departments, ihe government printing office and the navyyard and station, as served in themilitary or nav.il service of 1he United States in the late civil war or thef panish-Ameriran war, shall be excused irom duty at one o'clock p. m.for the remainder of that day, to enable them to participate in the e.v-ercises of the unveiling of the statuerected to the memory of the lateGen. John A. Togan."AGNEW HAS THE PICTURE.Arrival of C. Morland Agrnew In Kn-Eland with the RecoveredGalonborongh Picture.Liverpool, April 8. C. Morland Ag-new, upon his arrival here on thesteamer Etruria, admitted that hehad the Gainsborough portrait of theduchess of Devonshire.Mr. Agnew himself carried the picture ashore, but beyond admittingthat it was the famous missing Gainsborough, he declined to furnish anydetails regarding its recovery.Before proceeding to London Mr.Agnew wired his son in that city asking the later to meet him as Eustonrailroad station with two clerks fromthe office and a detective.On his arrival in London Mr. Agnewhanded over the picture to the clerksand detective, who deposited it in asafe in the office.Liverpool Grain. Imports.Liverpool, April 8. The imports ofgrain last week (incomplete) were asfollows: From Atlantic ports, 57,000quarters; Pacific ports, 6,000; otherports, 14,000 quarters. The importsof corn from Atlantic ports last week(incomplete) were 41,000 quarters.Injunction Dissolved.Kingston, Jamaica, April 8. Private advices received herefrom Panama say smallpox is prevalent there.mi m .Attitude of the State Department InRelation to the Status ofAffairs in China.MINISTER WU IS EVIDENTLY WORRIED.The Apparent Contradictory Natureof Different Dispatches in Relatilon to Russia and China Has mTendency- to Keep the DiplomaticOfficials Guesslna".Washington, April 8. The Chineseminister was an early caller at thet-tate department to seek informationas to the report, based on advices tothe state department, that there hadbeen an interruption of the diplomatic intercourse between Russia andChina. Mr. Wu had not been advisedof any such development, and the information before the state department was so contradictory that it didnot permit any clear explanation ofthe real Etate of afTairs.A Donbt Arises.The doubt arises from the fact thatMr. Rockhill's latest dispatch docsnot mention any such disarrangementand the officials feel bound to acceptthis as pretty strong evidence thatprior intimations of discord have nottaken actual form. Yet the dispatchreceived from Mr. Squires, the American charge d'affaires, in the absenceof Minister Conger, appear to havebeen quite explicit that the difficultyalready, had made itself manifest. Itis thought possible at the state department that the circumstances towhich Mr. Squires refers occurredprior to the receipt in Pekin of thelast Russian note, and that the trouble may have been adjusted subsequently. An Attitude of Expectancy.The state department maintains anattitude of doubt and expectancy,and is not yet prepared to admit thatthere has been an interruption of intercourse between the two countries,either limited or complete.Aside from the telegraphic advicesthere are some attending circumstances which indicate that at leastsme strain or partial hiicmiTticn ofintercourse has occurred. The factdeveloped in Washington, about aweek ago, that Russia had deliveredto China what amounted to an ultimatum on the signing of the Manchurian agreement. This followedthe usual course of untimatums andfixed a definite limit of days withinwhich China could act. It also conveyed the citar intimation that unfavorable action by China would leadto a severance of diplomatic relationsbetween the two countries.The Limit Has Expired.The limit of time fixed is believedto have been one week and to haveexpired last Wednesday. China didnot sign within the time limit and thenext day, Thursday, Russia addressedher note to the powers which hasbeen accepted as removing the pressure over the Manchurian agreement.This at first seemed to be a waiver ofher prior intimation of an interruption of diplomatic intercourse, andyet there was no such explicit waiver,and the latest advices from Pekin reporting that an interruption has nowactually occurred, seem to be directlyin line with the threat previously conveyed. In case there proves to be an interruption of the relations between Russia and China, it is not expected todisarrange the negotiations betweenthe powers and China or betweenRussia and the powers. It probablywould be confined to a terminationof the close ententelong maintainedbetween Russia and China.A Job Well Done.Washington, April 8. The gigantictask of recovering to the governmentthe money owing to it by the variousPacific railroads will soon be completed. Up to date 5126,000,000 has beendeposited in the treasury ,and the saleof the government's lien on the SiouxCity & Facile railroad, soon to bemade, will complete the task.Filipinos in the Navy.Washington, April 8. Instructionshave been cabled by Secretary Longto Rear-Admiral Remey, commanderof the Asiatic station, authorizinghim to enlist 500 natives in the Philippines for service on board the formerSpanish gunboats and other small vessels which, are to be maintained exclusively in the Philippnies.Bnrucd to Death.Ava, Minn., April 8. Miss MaggieRiggers, a milliner, while preparingher Easter toilet, was burned todeath. In some manner her haircaught fire, and in her endeavor toextinguish it the inflammable millinery stock, and the building and itscontents were destroyed.Missing; Mining; Brokers.Colorado Springs, Col., April 8.Augustus B. Moulder and George B.Cheesman, composing the well,-knownand hitherto large brokerage company, the Molder-Cheesman company,are reported missing. Heavy defalcations are alleged.School for Petty Officers.New York, April 8. To further Increase the efficiency of enlisted menof the navy, Secretary Long has directed the establishment of a schoolfor petty officers in Newport, R. I.Chinese Arrested.Malone, X. Y., April 8. Twentynine Chinese were arrested on the Canadian line north, of Malone, whiletrying to make their way into theUnited States.AN EASTER SERMON.Dr. Talmage Delivers a Timely Discourse on the Risen Savior.A Prophecy on Ow.r Own ResurrectionAs Christ Ilns Risen So WillHis People Rise The Immortal Body.ICopyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. Y.lWashington,Washington,. April 7. The greatChristian festival celebrated in all thechurches is the theme of Dr. Talmage' sdiscourse; I. Corinthians, 15:20: "Nowis Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them thatslept."On this glorious Easter morningiamid the music and the flowers, I giveyou Christian salutation. This morning, Russian meeting Russian on thestreets of St. Petersburg, hanls hknwith the salutation: "Christ is risen!"and is answered by his friend in salutation: "He is risen indeed!" In someparts of England and Ireland to thisvery day there is the superstition thaton Easter morning the sun dances inthe heavens. And well may we forgivesuch a superstition, which illustratesthe fact that the natural world seemsto sympathize with the spirit ual.Hail, Easter morning! Flowers!Flowers! All of them a-voice, all ofthem a-tongue, all of them full ofspeech to-day. I bend over one of thelilies, and I hear it say: "Consider the)lilies of the valley, how they grow;they toil not, neither do thej' spin, j etSolomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." I bend overa rose, and it seems to whisper: "Iam the rose of Sharon." And then 1stand and listen. From all sides therecomes the chorus of flowers, saying:"If God so clothed the grass of the fieldwhich to-day is and to-morrow is castinto the oven, shall He not much moreclothe you, O ye of little faith?"Flowers! Flowers! Braid them intothe bride's hair. Flowers! Flowers!Strew them over the graves of thedead, sweet prophecy of the resurrection. Flowers! Flcrtvers! Twist themInto a garland for my Lord Jesus onEaster morning, and "Glory be to theFather, and to the Son, and to theHoly Ghost; as it was in the beginning,is now and ever shall be." The womencame to the Saviour's tomb, and theydropped spices all around the tomb,and those spices were the seed thatbegan to grow, and from them cameall the flowers of this Easter morn.The two angels robed in white tookhold of the stone at the Saviour's tomb,and they hurled it with such forcedown the hill that it crushed in thedoor of the world's sepulcher, and thestark and the dead must come forth.I care not how labyrinthine the mausoleum or how costly the sarcophagusor however beautifully parterred thefamily grounds, we want them allbroken up by the Lord of the resurrection. They must come out.- Father and mother they must come out.Husband and wife the3r must comeout. Brother and sister they mustcome out. Our darling children theymust come out. The eyes that weclosed with such trembling fingersmust open again in the radiance ofthat morn. The arms we folded in dustroust join ours in an embrace of reunion. The voice that was hushed inour dwelling must be returned. Oh,how long some of you seem to be waiting for the resurrection! And forthe se broken hearts to-day I make asoft, cool bandage out of Easterflowers.This morning I find in the risenChrist a prophecy of our own resurrection, my text setting forth the ideathat as Christ has risen so His peoplewill rise. He, the first sheaf of theresurrection harvest. He, "the firstfruits of them that slept." Before Iget through this morning I will walkthrough all the cemeteries of thedead, through all the country graveyards, where your loved ones areburied, and I will pluck off these flowers, and I will drop a sweet promiseof the Gospel a rose of hope, a lilyof joy on every tomb the child'stomb, the husband's tomb, the wife'stomb, the father's grave, the mother'sgrave. And while we celebrate the resurrection of Christ we will at the sametime celebrate the resurrection of allthe good. "Christ, the first fruits ofthem that slept."If I should come to you and ask youfor the names of the great conquerorsof the world, you would say Alexander,Caesar, Philip, Napoleon I. Ah, j-ouhave forgotten to mention the nameof a greater conqueror than all thesea cruel, a ghastly conqueror. Herode on a black horse across Waterlooand Chalons and Atlanta, the bloodyhoofs crushing the hearts of nations.It is the conqueror Death. He carriesn black flag, and he takes no prisoners.He digs a trench across the hemispheres and fills it with the carcassesof nations. Fifty times would theworld have been depopulated had notGod kept making new generations.Fifty times the world would haveswung lifeless through the air no manon the mountain, no man on the sea,an abandoned ship plowing throughimmensity. Again and again has hedone this work with all generations.He is a monarch as well as a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher; hisfountains the falling tears of a world.Blessed be God! In the light of thisEaster morning I see. the prophecythat his scepter shall be broken andhis palace shall be demolished. Thehour is coming when all who are intheir graves shall come forth. Christrisen, we shall rise. Jesus, "the firstfruits of them that slept."Now, around this doctrine of the resurrection there are a great many mysteries. You come to me and say: "Ifthe bodies of the dead are to be raised,how is this and how is that?" And youUk e a thousand questions I am incompetent to answ?r. But there are agreat many things you believe that youare not able to explain. You would bea very foolish man to say: "I won'tbelieve anything I can't understand."Why, putting down one kind of flowerseed, comes there up this flower of thiscolor? Whj-, putting down anotherflower seed, comes there up a flowerof this color? One flower white, another flower yellow, another flowercrimson. Why the difference when theseeds look to be very much alike arevery much alike? Explain these things.Explain that wart on the finger. Explain the difference why the oak leafis different from the leaf of the hickorj Tell me how the Lord Almightycan turn the chariot of His omnipotence on a rose leaf. You ask me questions about the resurrection I cannotanswer. I will ask you a thousandquestions about everyday life you cannot answer.I find my strength in this passage:"All who are in their graves shallcome forth." I do not pretend tomake the explanation. You go onand say: "Suppose a returned missionary dies in this city. When hewas in China, his foot was amputated; he lived years after in England, and there he had an arm amputated; he is buried to-day in yondercemetery. In the resurrection willthe foot come from China, will thearm come from England, and will thedifferent parts of the body be reconstructed in the resurrection? Howis that possible?"You have noticed. I suppose, inreading the story of the resurrectionthat almost every account of theBible gives the idea that the characteristic of that day will be. a greatsound. I do not know that it will bevery loud, but I know it will be verypenetrating. In the mausoleumwhere silence has reigned a thousandyears that voice must penetrate. Inthe coral cave of the deep that voicemust penetrate. Millions cf spiritswift come through the gates ofeternity, and they will come to thetombs of the earth, and they willcry: "Give us back our bodies; wegave them to you in corruption; surrender them now in incorruption."Hundreds of spirits hovering aboutthe fields of Gettysburg, for therethe bodies are buried. A hundredthousand spirits coming to Greenwood, for there the bodies are buried,waiting for the reunion of body andsoul.All along the sea route from NewYork to Liverpool, at every few mileswhere a steamer went down, departed spirits coming back, hovering overthe wave. There is where the Cityof Boston perished. Found at last.There is where the President perished. Steamer found at last. Thereis where the Central America wentdown. Spirits hovering, hundreds ofspirits hovering, waiting for the reunion of body and soul. Out on theprairie a spirit alights. There iswhere a traveler died in -the snow.Crash goes Westminster abbey, andthe poets and the orators comeforth; wonderful mingling of goodand bad. Crash go the pyramids ofEgypt, and the monarchs come forth.Who can sketch the scene? I suppose that one moment before thatgeneral rising there will be an entiresilence, save as you hear the grindingof a wheel or the clatter of the hoofsof a procession passing into the cemetery. Silence in all the caves of theearth. Silence on the side of themountain. Silence down in the valleys and far out into the sea. Silence.But in a moment, in the twinkling ofan eye, as the archangel's trumpetcomes pealing, rolling, crashing,across the mountain and sea, theearth will give one terrific shudder,and the graves of the dead will heavelike the waves of the sea, and Ostend,Sevastopol and Chalons will stalkforth in the lurid air, and thedrowned will come up and wring outtheir wet locks above the billows, andall the land and all the sea becomeone moving mass of life all faces,all ages, all conditions, gazing in onedirection and upon one throne thethrone of resurrection. "All who arein their graves shall come forth.""But," you say, "if this doctrine ofthe resurrection is true, as prefiguredby this Easter morning, can you tellus something about the resurrectedbody?" I can. There are mysteriesabout that, but I shall tell j-ou threeor four things in regard to the resurrected body that are beyond guessing and beyond mistake.In the first place, I remark in regard to j-oiir resurrected body, it willbe a glorious body. The body wehave now is a mere skeleton of whatit would have been if sin had notmarred and defaced it. Take tb,?most exquisite statue that was evermade by an artist and chip it hereand chip it there with a chisel, andbatter and bruise it here and thereand then stand it out in the stormsof a hundred years, and the beautywould be gone. Well, the humanbody has been chipped and batteredand bruised and damaged with "thestorms of thousands of years thephysical defects of other generationscoming down from generation to generation, we inheriting the infelicitiesof past generations. But in the morning of the resurrection the body willbe adorned and beautified accordingto the original model. And there isno such difference between a gymnastand an emaciated wretch in a lazaretto as there will be a differencebetween our bodies as thej' are nowand our resurrected forms. Thereyou will see the perfect eye after thewaters of death have washed out thestains of tears and study. There youwill see the perfect hand after theknots of toil have been untied fromthe knuckles. There you will see theform erect and elastic after the burdens have gone off the shoulder thevery life of God in the body. In thisworld the most impressive thing, themost expressive thing, is the human)face, but that face is veiled with thogriefs of a thousand years. But in,the resurrection morn that veil willbe taken away from the face, and the.noonday sun is dull and dim andstupid compared with the outflamingglories of the countenances of thosaved. When those faces of therighteous, those resurrected . faces,turn toward the gate or look up toward the throne, it will be like thedawning of a new morning on thobosom of everlasting day. O glorious,resurrected body!But I remark, also, in regard to thatbody which you are to get in the resurrection, it will be an important body.These bodies are wasting away. Somebody has said that as soon as we begin,to live we begin to die. Unless we keepputting the fuel into the furnace thofurnace dies out. The blood vesselsare canals taking the breadstuffs toall parts of the system. We must boreconstructed hour by hour, day byday. Sickness and death are all thtime trying to get their pry under thetenement or to push us off the embankment of the grave. But, blessed beGod, in the resurrection we will get a.bodjr immortal. No malaria in the air,no cough, no neuralgic twinge, norheumatic pang, no fluttering of theheart, no shortness of breath, no ambulance, no dispensary, no hospital,no invalid's chair, no spectacles to improve the dim vision, but health, immortal health! O ye who have achesand pains indescribable this morning,ye who are never well, ye who arelacerated with physical distress, letme tell you of the resurrected body,free from all disease. Immortal! Immortal! I go further and say in regard tothat body which you are to get in theresurrection.it will be a vigorous body.We walk now eight or ten miles, andwe are fatigued; we lift a few hundredpounds, and we are exhausted; unarmed, we meet a wild beast, and wemust run or flee or climb or dodge because we are incompetent to meet it;we toil eight or ten hours energentically, and then we are weary. But in thoresurrection we are to have a bodythat never gets tired. Is it not a glorious thought?Plenty of occupation in Heaven. Isuppose Broadway, New York, in thobusiest season of the year at noondayis not so busy as Heaven is all thetime. Grand projects of mercy forother worlds. Victories to be celebrated. The downfall of despotism onearth to be announced. Great songs tobe learned and sung. Great expeditions on which God shall send forth.His children. Plenty to do, but nofatigue. If you are seated under thetrees of life, it will not be to rest, butto talk over with some old comrade old'times the battles where you foughtshoulder to shoulder.Sometimes in this world we feel wewould like to have suehi a body as that.There is somuch work to be done forChrist, there are so many tears to bowiped away, there are so many burdens to life, there is so much to beachieved for Christ, we sometimeswish that from the first of January tothe last of December we could toil onwithout stopping to sleep or to takeany recreation or to rest or even totake food that we could toil right onwithout stopping a moment in ourwork of commending Christ andHeaven to all the people. But we allget tired. It is a characteristic of thehuman body in this condition; we mustget tired. Is it not a glorious thoughtthat we are going to have a body thatwill never grow weary? O gloriousresurrection day! Gladly will I flingaside this poor body of sin and flingit into the tomb if at thy bidding Ishall have a body that never wearies.That is a splendid resurrection hymnthat we have all sung:So Jesus slept. God's dying SonPassed through the grave and blessed thebed.Rest here, blest saint, till from His throneThe morning breaks to pierce the shade.0 blessed resurrection! Speak out,sweet flowers, beautiful flowers!While you tell of a risen Christ tell otthe righteous who shall rise. May Godfill you this morning with anticipation! 1 heard of a father and son whoamong others were shipwrecked atsea. The father and the son climbedinto the rigging. The father held on,but the son after awhile lost his holdon the rigging and was dashed down.The father supposed he had gone hopelessly under the wave. The next daythe father was brought ashore fromthe rigging in an exhausted state andlaid on a bed in a fisherman's hut, andafter many hours had passed he cameto consciousness and saw lying besidehim on the same bed his boy. Oh, myfriends, what a glorious thing it willbe if we wake up at last to find ourloved ones beside us, coming up fromthe same plot in the graveyard, comingup in the same morning light the father and son alive forever, all the lovedones alive forever, never more to weep,never more to part, never more to die.May the God of peace that broughtagain from the dead our Lord Jesus,that great Shepherd of the sheep,through the blood of the everlastingcovenant make you perfect in everygood work, to do His will, and let theassociations of this morning transportour thoughts to the grander assemblage before the throne. The one hundred and forty and four thousand andthe "great multitude that no man cannumber," some of our best friendsamong them, we after awhile to jointhe multitude. Glorious anticipation!Blest are the saints beloved of God:Washed are their robes in Jesus' blood.Brighter than angels, lo, they shine.Their wonders splendid and sublime.tMy soul anticipates the day.Would stretch her wings and soar awayTo aid the song, the palm to bear.And bow, the chief of sinners, there.Work on the first factory for themanufacture of American shoes inMexico began last month. Mexicanleather vjJl he used,1:.. .I ii !